Mariano Rivera deserves to be the first unanimous player voted into the Baseball Hall of Fame. The greatest closer in the game not only won the vote on the field, he won’t it off the field. How could you not vote for Rivera, who complied 652 saves, the most in baseball history? And Mo was nothing but a class act for the 19 years he spent in the Yankees organization. Easy choice for the Baseball Writers.

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